Chrysler may want to give the new Dodge Dart a well-accessorized introduction, but other product lines are getting some welcome Mopar-style attention as well. The only problem is that the best part on display for the Charger Redline 426 is the one you're not really allowed to use.
Read MoreIt's uncommon for a concept to transcend its sketches, but the Kia Track'ster Concept is that rare vehicle. Based on the Kia Soul, this hot hatch ticks all our boxes with all-wheel-drive, a six-speed transmission, and a 250-hp turbocharged four-banger underhood. If you build it, we will come.
Read MoreBuying wheels on a budget doesn't mean buying lowest-common-denominator. Look past new-car lots and be prepared to cover somewhat higher maintenance costs, and you'll have your choice of upscale cars at mainstream prices. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the best luxury car bargains.
Read MoreOur friends over at Lifehacker are spreading the word on what well-informed gearheads have long known: luxury cars usually undergo tremendous depreciation, turning what were exclusive rides into better bargains than new economy cars. We want to offer some buying advice. What's the best econobox-shaming value in a used luxury car?
Read MoreHigh-performance cars can be ridiculously expensive, but if you look in the corners and take a pass on snob appeal you can get intense amounts of speed for surprisingly little cash. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the best budget high-performance cars.
Read MoreYesterday we brought you the tale of a road warrior who has done three times the distance to the moon in about five years. His Civic may be capable, but there are definitely other viable means to racking up incredible mileage. What's the best car for driving about two hundred thousand miles a year?
Read MoreFebruary has decided to be a pal to me this year and grow an extra day, which I really appreciate. I’m glad for this freak 29th appendage because I really wanted to commemorate Black History Month before it ended with this post about one of my favorite drag racers, Kansas City’s Roy Drew.
Read MoreMercedes-Benz likes to pretend they invented the automobile, but that's a well-engineered, luxurious load of crap. The roots of the automobile go much further back, and researching how far back got me thinking. If we ignore, gleefully, what actually happened, when could the first car have been created, at least technically? How's 60 A.D. — the middle of the Roman Empire — sound?
Read MoreAs cars get ever more technically advanced, it's important to look back and see the roots of what we now take for granted — and maybe find old ideas with modern relevance. These are Jalopnik readers' choices for the most advanced cars in each decade of the past hundred years.
Read MoreAutomaking is a game of constant progress. With precious few exceptions, car companies are always looking for the next step forward. Sometimes a few steps get taken together and a serious technical masterpiece arrives. What are the most advanced cars — by decade — in automotive history?
Read MoreWhat happens when you seamlessly cut and splice together chase scenes from 14* of the biggest big budget action flicks — including The Rock, The Matrix Reloaded, Transformers, and Bad Boys II? You get this absolutely amazing eleven-and-a-half-minute short film calledChasing Trinity: Part 2. It's the biggest, baddest, most Michael Baygasmic car chase... in the world. Ever.
Read MoreAlthough we can appreciate a shiny paint job or a perfect restoration as much as anyone, there is something about a car that obviously shows its age that is truly hard to resist. Sometimes worn out paint, not quite perfect sheet metal and a sun baked interior can add significantly to a car's character and overall appearance.
Read MoreIt's a somewhat little known fact that Lyndon B. Johnson loved cars, but the rather unique fleet of cars he kept on the ranch in Stonewall, TX where the 36th president grew up and lived for most of his life certainly tell the tale.
Read MoreLast week, my grandmother fell in her kitchen and had to be rushed off to the emergency room. Her already poorly functioning legs now hurt more than usual, so it's impossible for her to slide in and out of her new Honda Civic — let alone drive. But even before the fall, her driving skills left something to be desired. In just the first week she had the car she backed it over the neighbor's mailbox. But my grandmother will most likely be back behind the wheel next week, because my grandfather c
Read MoreA great car is just a complicated sculpture without a good road. A truly great road is what serious driving is all about, but some of the best roads are also the most crowded. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten best unknown and underappreciated driving roads.
Read MoreRepublican presidential hopeful and Michigan native Mitt Romney claims he's a gearhead. In fact, he claims he can name any 50s or 60s car based on nothing more than a peek at a square foot of one. Now it's time for him to prove he actually can.
Read MoreA great car deserves a great road. Sometimes knowledge of those roads is passed by word-of-mouth, but the true greats deserve more recognition. What's the best pure driving road that remains a cherished local secret?
Read MoreFor many, having a car while in college is a luxury. For some, having a luxury car while in college is another fact of life. Here are Jalopnik readers' picks for the campuses with the hottest student rides.
Read MoreAmerican cars and car culture contains multitudes; it cannot be captured in whole, never mind with ten spots on a list. Nonetheless, some vehicles perfectly exemplify the sea-to-shining-sea wonderfulness of this land. These are Jalopnik readers' picks of the ten most quintessentially American cars.
Read MoreStudents at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. don't just complain about easy grades, they also drive cars so nice you'd think their campus was the parking lot of the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai. In the photo composite above is about $1.2 million worth of automobiles allegedly belonging to college students.
Read MoreCesar, we have to stop this. Several times a week, I get your little card you’ve stuck in the window of my truck. I get it. You think my truck is junk, and that you can buy it for $100 to $1000 and do God knows what with it. Well, Cesar, I hate to break it to you, but my truck, while usually filthy, is not junk.
Read MoreAutomated-manual "flappy paddle" gearboxes are rapidly becoming the drive-ratio selectors of choice for high-performance cars. Some see this as meaningful progress with numerous benefits, others as a step away from driver control towards a computerized compromise.
Read MoreWith Russians mounting video cameras on their car dashboards in an attempt to avoid the rising tide of insurance scammers, we've been treated to a slew of crazy driving antics captured on film. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten best Russian dashcam videos.
Read MoreSome brilliant entrepreneur on eBay is offering a fiberglass body kit designed to turn your $1,600 mid-'90s Honda Civic coupe into the $1.6 million Bugatti Veyron for just $4,500. Buy it. Buy it now. You absolutely must.
Read MoreOrphaned by the conspiracy-laden bankruptcy of British Leyland, the generally-terrible Austin Princess attracts a special kind of old car curmudgeon. That's why seeing this 1,500 word eBay rant about one such car shouldn't surprise anyone.
Read MoreHenry Ford may have popularized the American car, but it was legendary General Motors Designer Harley Earl who, through his concepts, made it sexy. One example — the Corvette's twin brother, the Oldsmobile F-88 — was so desirable, Earl secretly crated the entire concept car out of GM and shipped it, piece-by-piece, to his friend and former competitor.
Read MoreA high-performance engine is what makes a fast car a fast car. Except when it doesn't. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten worst "high-performance" engines of all time.
Read MoreSurpassing 250,000 miles on a single car during its lifetime is a remarkable feat. Paul Habib, Jr. did that on his 2006 Honda Civic in just the first two years he owned it. This month, five years after buying it, he'll cross 750,000 miles. His goal? To hit over 1,000,000 miles.
Read MoreThe motor is the heart of any car. Sometimes that heart has a hard time pumping life into a car that needs or deserves much more. What powerplant promised the world but left owners flat-footed?
Read MoreEver since Karl Benz registered his patent in 1886, Germany has been the home of high-quality, high-velocity wheeled transportation. Whether for racing, Autobahn travel, or just everyday use, German cars are still in many ways the standard. Here are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten most quintessentially German cars.
Read MoreGermany is both the accepted home of the automobile and the source of the most popular high-performance driving machines in the world today. Most automakers are slouching towards international blandness, but the German marques still embody a particular cultural mindset. What's the most quintessentially German car of all time?
Read MoreThe sight of a modern limo usually suggests that behind the tinted windows there is a group of people who are either rich, important, or going to high school prom.
Read MoreJames Garner, like a several other notable actors, has a longstanding love of racing. After starring in Grand Prix in 1966, he started a long semi-career in racing, owning a racing team, preparing Ramblers for the Baja 500 race as part of a deal with AMC, and driving Indy 500 pace cars three times. The guy loved racing.
Read MoreJumping to conclusions about cars and owners is a longstanding tradition both in gearhead circles and in society at large. Yesterday's quick assumption is today's mistaken misbelief or outright falsehood. Here are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten automotive stereotypes that need to go away now.
Read MoreLike most car-obsessed folks, I have many more toy cars around than a reasonable person with a mortgage should. It's a limited way of satisfying car-ownership urges without turning your yard into an oil-soaked scrapyard. Well, turning it into more of one, I mean.
Read MoreStereotyping is an unfortunate quirk of human nature that runs through car enthusiasm like a bad social disease. Some automotive preconceptions have completely lost legitimacy (if there was ever any in the first place) but refuse to fade away. What stereotypes about cars or drivers need to die?
Read MoreJapanese cars have become the standard of the world for many, but underneath that solid competence there's a very specific and subtle national character. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten most quintessentially Japanese cars.
Read MoreAs those of you curious enough to click on today's Google Doodle know, it's the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens. We're all familiar with his work, at least in holiday-time Muppet-based formats, but I'm sure the real question we all have about Dickens is "what would he have driven?"
Read MoreCar enthusiasm is a global cultural phenomenon that never runs out of ways to show appreciation for favorite models. Sometimes those ideas start from one thought, become increasingly twisted, and end up as a very different kind of horse than anyone expected.
Read MoreDepending on your perspective cars of the 1980s might seem like they were new yesterday or built sometime before the beginning of time. Regardless of your perspective, the newest vehicle to come out of the decade is now 23 years old.
Read MoreWe all remember our first car, and although few of us still have it — even fewer of us probably were thoughtful enough to tell that car how we felt about it. But Kelcie Moseley did just that at Thought Catalog. Here's the letter she sent. Write your own in the comments below. —Ed.
Read MoreThe world is a vibrant, multi-hued place — but you'd never know that by looking at most automotive showrooms. We need more intensity and variety on the streets. Right now anyone with a little creativity and enough money in their checking account can get whatever color they want. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the colors that need to make a comeback.
Read MoreYesterday, I gave you ten fascinating facts about Presidents and cars. And by "facts" I mean half were a special type of fact many experts would term a "lie." So, as promised, today I'm revealing which ones were true, and which were imaginary.
Read MoreA week ago, England's National Motor Museum brought out four Bond girls to open its "Bond In Motion" exhibition showing off vehicles from the movie franchise.
Read MorePresident Obama's well-documented production of a Presidential boner over a Shelby GT500 at the Washington D.C. Auto Show makes for an excellent reason to bring up some fun facts about Presidents and cars.
Read MoreCharles de Gaulle said, "France cannot be France without greatness." France also cannot be France without a selection of the most delightfully weird cars ever made. Here are Jalopnik readers' choices for the most quintessentially French cars.
Read MoreAs an elderly veteran of three wars who is a little hard of hearing we understand why Bob Johnson assumed it was an earthquake to blame for pictures falling off the tables in his house. It was only when someone came to check on the man that Johnson realized one of his neighbors had actually driven a car into his house.
Read MoreA Jalopnik reader caught this Ferrari 599 crashed off the road near Jacksonville, Florida. Apparently 612 horsepower and rear-wheel-drive are a bit of a handful in the rain. Who knew?
Read MoreMatt Messer brutally crashed his Ultra-4 truck in last weekend's King of the Hammers race in the desert east of Los Angeles. Unable to see through the dust, he went from charging to zero in an instant. His safety gear likely saved his life. Warning: NSFW language
Read MoreAssuming the sound of screeching tires means you will soon have a car in your living room might sound paranoid, but one homeowner has a pretty good reason to be concerned about the nuances of traffic around his home in Haverhill, Ma.
Read MoreSheyla Hershey, whose 38KKK breasts hold the Guinness world record for implants, crashed her Mustang while allegedly driving drunk to her Houston home on Super Bowl Sunday. She was not wearing a seatbelt, and claims those giant breasts saved her life.
Read MoreA Jalopnik reader found this crashed Gallardo sitting in a parking lot for a couple of days. It turns out the car was crashed on video in Super Speeders 6, but we still don't know the back story behind what looks like a monster crash.
Read MoreA woman driving a Camaro SS reportedly had a seizure at this past weekend's Cars and Coffee in Dallas, pinning her foot to the throttle and driving into two Corvette Z06s. The driver was quickly hospitalized and is in unknown condition.
Read MoreAndrew Miedecke handed his son the keys to his V8-powered Ford Capri Perana for last week's Targa Wrest Point road rally in Tasmania. Andrew's instructions were don't crash and don't come in second. Watch as his son nose dives straight into the ocean.
Read MoreAlthough there's no good time to wreck a rented Lamborghini Gallardo, we'd have to say crashing into a fence when you're already running late for your own wedding is easily one of the worst times for it to occur.
Read MoreHere's a a pair of exclusive photos from the set of next Tuesday's apple pie-flavored Top Gear on History, which reveal the boys will attempt to drive three infamous "dangerous cars" to the death: a Corvair, a Pinto, and a Samurai. Our money's on the Corvair.
Read MoreAmidst the Tesla battery problem, comes news of a judgment from the UK courts again dismissing Tesla Motors' complaints and reiterating that Top Gear did nothing libelous or maliciously false in the program's review of the Tesla Roadster.
Read MoreDuring the offseason for Top Gear, the BBC's hit motoring show watched by millions, each of the three co-hosts has their own special routines. Jeremy Clarkson drives supercars in exotic locales. James May builds houses out of Legos. Richard Hammond comes to America and destroys houses and minivans with monster machines like Abrams tanks, airport firetrucks, and excavators.
Read MoreBack in the more mainstream world of large crossovers for large families of large Americans with large amounts of stuff, GMC's revised Acadia three-row soft-roader bowed today in Chicago.
Read MoreYou've already seen the 2013 Hyundai Elantra GT, which we erroneously called the Elantra Touring. It turns out Hyundai's updated the styling of the Elantra hatchback, but went back in time for the name. Allow us to explain.
Read MoreThe ancient Greeks didn't have the Web, so they had plenty of time to sit around and contemplate other things, like logic and truth and tzatziki recipes. They also were decent mathematicians, and in the midst of building the Parthenon and fighting the Trojans they created the foundations for centuries of boring classes.
Read MoreOur friends at Bangshift pass along word of a hardcore Ford fan from Massachusetts who is living the dream of every old-car geek: His new restoration project is a well-weathered but completely intact 1967 Shelby GT500 that sat undriven for 25 years in Death Valley.
Read MoreSomeone in Ingolstadt is putting ecstasy in the water supply. It's the only way to explain how the Audi R18 Hybrid we've heard about became this diesel hybrid AWD race car. Get your glow sticks out, we're about to rave to the Audi R18 E-tron Quattro.
Read MoreJaguar has tried to address the issue of a lack of lie-flat baby makin' room in the back of the XF sedan, officially revealing its new station wagon, the Sportbrake, a week before its debut at the Geneva Motor Show.
Read MoreA Buick GNX is coming, but it's not coming from Buick. Performance company SLP plans to build their own GNX, pictured above, with output above 300 horsepower and a more aggressive look. Unless they make one key improvement I don't think this is the GNX Buick should build.
Read MoreGM has officially teamed up with PSA Peugeot Citroën In order to stop losing all the money they're earning in the rest of the world in Europe on Opel/Vauxhall. Or, to put it other terms, they've dumped their weirdo Swedish girlfriend and picked up a tiny underfed French woman to help raise a better family.
Read MoreSun-drenched speeding on twisty roads may be the popular dreamy image of Real Driving, but sometimes you need to settle in for hours of droning travel time. Maintaining awareness is crucial even if the roads are boring. How do you stay alert during long drives, especially at night?
Read MoreThroughout history some of the best cars haven't been sold in the United States and the draconian 25-year import ban has made bringing them here a legally questionable endeavor. Here are Jalopnik readers' picks for the ten best cars exempt from regulations you can import right now. Do it. Right this second.
Read MoreWhat's better than full photos and details of the brand new Ferrari F12 Berlinetta? Why, video of the fastest Ferrari ever built, of course. Watch Ferrari F1 drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa react to the car at Fiorano and then watch a CGI-y look from every angle.
Read MoreThis is it. The new Ferrari. And it's not called the Ferrari F620 GT. No, it's named the F12berlinetta. Yes, that's all one word. Whatever. Everyone's just gonna split those up and call it the "F12 Berlinetta." Or they'll call it the "F12." But who cares what it's called? We don't. All we — and you — should care about is that it's the fastest Ferrari ever built.
Read MoreWe live in a time where charged opinions are essentially the rule. For a number of reasons people find it necessary to take a stand and publicly express or defend their beliefs in the midst of commotion.
Read MoreThe two kids riding in the back of this Citroën Berlingo van fall out of the open tailgate, hop up, and get on their merry way. Horrible parenting? Perhaps. Tough kids? Definitely.
Read MoreWhile your car might not have the mess of cables you'll find underneath you desk, it has recently become a home for more technology than it is prepared to handle. Here's how you can keep those stray chargers, audio cables, and whatever else under control so you're not fighting wires while trying to concentrate on the road.
Read MoreLast night, Juan Pablo Montoya lost control of his race car at the Daytona 500 and crashed into a pickup truck with a jet engine and 200 gallons of jet fuel, igniting the track in a superheated mess. But why the hell was there a helicopter engine strapped to a truck in the middle of a race?
Read MoreQuattroruote, the same Italian magazine that leaked shots of Lamborghini's SUV, has now dropped the official photos of Pininfarina's three-door diesel-turbine-hybrid concept car, the Cambiano, that we were supposed to see at the Geneva Motor Show next week.
Read MoreFOX easily won the ratings battle with a rain-delayed, fire-delayed Daytona 500. There's a lesson here, and I'm pretty sure it's "don't underestimate the drawing power of things blowing up."
Read MoreLast night on national television, America's wonkiest social media platform, Twitter, and its supposedly most backward sport, NASCAR, exploded together into a massive fireball fueled by jet propellant, secret phones, and good/bad timing. Here's the story of how one driver picked up 100,000 followers in two hours and how the sport of good ol' boys may be forever changed. UPDATE!
Read MoreWe remain frustrated by the persistence of the 25-year rule for EPA/DOT exemptions on car imports. However, slowly but surely a host of ultra-desirable cars are hitting the magic age and now avoid that regulatory silliness. Time for a midwinter escapist break: Given the funds, what 25-plus-year-old car would you import?
Read MoreBeing free and unencumbered by materialistic excesses is great, but there comes a time when a man must face up to reality and say: Yes, it's time to buy some decent furniture. Especially when the beloved significant other says that, too.
Read MoreIf you're one of those people who's always wondering why the flying car hasn't been invented yet, you're too late. The first flying car was already created back in the 1970s — but don't get too excited. It was literally a huge disaster.
Read MoreLast week I attended the bankruptcy auction at Saab's U.S. headquarters outside of Detroit and witnessed the last moments of an automaker up close. It turns out the disposition of an automaker's assets is anything but orderly. No, it's more like grave-robbing.
Read MoreAre you tired of looking at the hollow shell of a GMC pickup sitting on your lawn, reminding you of your complete failure with yet another restoration project? Just make it into a BBQ like the enterprising Saudis at Radical Motorsports.
Read MoreShockingly, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's staff was pretty silent about our car guy challenge last week, but that's okay. I'm not going to take it personally.
Read MoreIt's one thing to have a car evolve into a special product, but sometimes a car comes out of nowhere and sets everyone back on their heels. These are Jalopnik readers' choices for ten of history's biggest automotive surprises.
Read MoreHave you heard that video is a big thing over at Gawker Media? It's true, we watch and post a lot of videos each week. Here are some of the best videos of week, culled from an array of Gawker Media sites.
Read MoreAlthough it is set to make its official debut at the Geneva Motor Show in less than two weeks, photos of the Infiniti Emerge-E have hit the internet—and we like what we see.
Read MoreCall us a little strange (it wouldn't be the first time), but we think it is pretty hard to make a 1959 Dodge W100 Power Wagon any cooler than they were when they left the factory. The combination of the Power Wagon's Forward Look styling and rugged functionality make them a nearly perfect old truck in our eyes—even in showroom stock condition.
Read MoreWe live in a world where it's very hard to truly be in control. Maybe that's part of the appeal of driving: there's the sense of vector dynamics and singular destiny. Outside a car, and as you broaden your scope, control is fleeting. It's a damn complicated world out there.
Read MoreThis is Citroën's new, plush, designer hot hatch, the DS4 Racing. It's built by the French brand's motorsports division, who have absolutely dominated international rallying for the past seven years, and it shows that Citroën is in a strange place right now.
Read MoreGas prices have again spiked, but as much as the numbers go up, it's unusual to actually see the numbers go up. But an ABC News crew in Los Angeles managed to catch a price change in progress during a national TV broadcast — and it's just as two Corvettes roll up to the pump.
Read MoreHere's the first ad for the 2013 Ford Mustang unveiled moments ago on the company's YouTube page. The commercial feels like something we've seen before — only sort of creepy.
Read MoreA reader over at GTSpirit has snagged the first live photo of the Ferrari F620 GT ahead of its public debut at next month's Geneva Motor Show.
Read MoreOn this date in 1980, a ragtag US men's Olympic hockey team stunned the world by wrapping up the gold medal. Serious surprises are rare in the hypercalcuated spheres of both sports and automaking, but occasionally something amazing comes out of nowhere. What car was the biggest, ballsiest surprise?
Read MoreThat's an ad for car insurance that popped up on Facebook the other day. See anything wrong with it? It's okay, I didn't notice it at first either but the photo in the ad isn't a random drivers license picture, instead it's the face of Mohamed Atta, one of the terrorist who crashed a plane into the Twin Towers on 9/11.
Read MoreAin't no fruit sweeter than a forbidden one. Just ask Eve. Fans in the United States get a plethora of BMW 1 Sseries products, including a convertible and the delightful 1M Coupe. They should be content, but then BMW drops this. It's the BMW M135i three-door hatch concept and the yearning begins yet again. Damn you, BMW!
Read MoreAutomotive-industry awards have always been a mixed bag. Alongside any number of Car of the Year charades, specific aspects of the industry attract attention with varying degrees of credibility. Still, the award for giving out the most Eighties-style sculptures for everything goes to one entity: J.D. Power and Associates.
Read MoreWe are already familiar with the new five-door hatchback Hyundai is bringing to the States in the form of the 2013 Hyundai Elantra GT. Now Hyundai's German design center has unveiled the wagon version. Can you tell the difference?
Read MoreTesla Motors' response to this morning's revelation that Tesla Roadsters carry a devastating design problem that could lead to the cars becoming "bricked" — i.e. so drained of battery power they are unusable and require a $40,000 replacement — has been to insinuate that the problem was with the owners and not the car.
Read MoreSomeone recently filed a patent application for a four-door pillarless version of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG coupe. Yes, you read that right. Even more interesting: Mercedes isn't denying it's their patent.
Read MoreAggressive plastic surgery to give one the appearance of youth often ends up looking just wrong. Like what you would get if you texted an alien instructions on what a pretty young person would look like. The elements are there– smooth, unwrinkled skin, prominent cheekbones, full lips– but the end result is usually pretty damn creepy. What's really amazing is that this rule applies to cars as well as people. They even call them "facelifts" on cars, too.
Read MoreThis is the new Audi A3, leaked on the same day as its northern competition, the 2013 Volvo V40. Get a look at its clean lines and orange interior before all your pre-med buddies see them in the dealership.
Read MoreYou know what's great? This. This is great. This site, cars, the Internet, the whole damn thing. Skeptical? Good. I'm glad you're skeptical, because it's going to give me genuine joy to take your skepticism out back and spank it, right in front of all its stupid friends. How? With this:
Read MoreA low-mileage Ferrari F50 with a great story is up for auction and the bidding's at only $65,000. There are few caveats. It has a salvage title. And that great story? An FBI agent who seized it wrecked the car in Kentucky and it's been sitting around since 2009. Get out your checkbooks!
Read MoreTesla Motors’ lineup of all-electric vehicles — its existing Roadster, almost certainly its impending Model S, and possibly its future Model X — apparently suffer from a severe limitation that can largely destroy the value of the vehicle. If the battery is ever totally discharged, the owner is left with what Tesla describes as a “brick”: a completely immobile vehicle that cannot be started or even pushed down the street. The only known remedy is for the owner to pay Tesla approximately $40,000 t
Read MoreOne gun-totin' Chevy Volt owner responded to Newt Gingrich's claim that "you can't put a gun rack in a Volt" in the best way possible. He built a gun rack and put it in his own Volt, just to prove Gingrich wrong.
Read MoreIt doesn't matter if you're planning on smoking weed all day and then go running through your neighborhood naked, or if you're going to visit the elderly and then sing prayers at a homeless shelter. You've got to know your rights.
Read MoreAs nations now battle for technological and economic superiority in the same way that they used to struggle for military superiority, the Pakistan Air Force has embarked on a radical new mission: producing consumer electronics, including an e-reader seen above and an iPad-aping tablet computer.
Read MoreThis Nissan driver is trying to carry a ladder in the back seat of his family-size Altima. The car is just under six feet wide. The ladder is longer than that. Significantly longer.
Read MoreShaun Palmer, Olympic snowboarder, X-games champion, and "godfather of extreme sports" raced his heavily modified GMC Syclone up the 2003 Pikes Peak hillclimb. It was as badass as you thought it would be.
Read MoreIf any nation's automobiles are indicators of a prevailing character and attitude, it's those from the United States. They've been up, they've been down, but they've held on and carried an identity and sense of pride throughout it all. What's the most quintessentially star-spangled all-American car?
Read MoreMany states populate their highways with ominous 'Speed Limit Enforced By Aircraft' signs — as if squadrons of F-16s fly overhead waiting to pop motorists for going 10 mph over the speed limit. While there are states that still use planes to enforce the speed limit, there's one member of the Union that mostly just pretends it does.
Read MoreThere are days when we need extra time. There are days when the clock seems to need new batteries and some oil. Time is absolute in the fixed frame of normalcy, but perception is subjective and can depend heavily on how moody you are. Especially on a slow Monday.
Read MoreHernando "Scratch" Gomez doesn't need his Ferrari 348 Targa anymore now that he's in an American jail because of his nasty drug trafficking habit. The authorities back in Bogota, Colombia thought they'd do what American cops tend to do with their drug-seized cars and converted it into police cruiser.
Read MoreYour current auto insurer (and perhaps other service providers) may be holding out on you. If you're eligible for a lower rate, you probably won't be automatically given one unless you ask for it. In one case, the New York Times reports, one man would have been paying twice as much on his policy had he not gotten a competitive quote elsewhere.
Read MoreTechnological progress is both a given and a constant source of controversy in the automotive world. Some new ideas are major improvements, some are huge mistakes, some are compromises. Few are as heavily debated as the increasing popularity of semiautomatic "flappy-paddle" transmissions.
Read MoreEven the rich are sinking in Europe: the 198-foot (60.2-meter) superyacht Yogi sunk under a Force 8 storm in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday. This video, just released today, shows the Hellenic Air Force rescuing the passengers in the middle of the gale.
Read MoreThe amphibious vehicle company Gibbs Technologies is back at it, unveiling a monstrous V8-powered truck/boat called the Phibian, aimed at law enforcement and military agencies. It could just be the ultimate offroader.
Read MoreThis image, created by Korean photographer Ho-Yeol Ryu, purportedly shows a multiple-exposure tilt-shift image of every plane taking off at Hannover Airport in Germany in the span of one day. Amazing, right? Yeah, except that it's not real. Here's why.
Read MoreBecause the last US built Rambler rolled off the assembly line in Kenosha, WI on June 30, 1969 they are largely forgotten by the non automotive obsessed public at large.
Read MoreHave you heard that video is a big thing over at Gawker Media? It's true, we watch and post a lot of videos each week. Here are some of the best videos of week, culled from an array of Gawker Media sites.
Read MoreCustom vans from the 1970s were all pretty strange creations by nature, but this re-bodied Volkswagen is unquestionably weirder than almost any of the "more conventional" mural covered shaggin' wagons we've ever seen.
Read MoreFerrari plans to officially unveil the F620 in the beginning of March at the Geneva Motor Show, but if you are getting antsy to see what the 599's replacement will look like today may be your lucky day. We believe the above picture is a shot of the F620 GT test mule's (somewhat) bare behind.
Read MoreA Swedish man was rescued on Friday after being trapped by snow in his car (not pictured above) for two months. Amazingly the man was alive, although according to TheLocal.se he was "seriously emaciated and barely able to speak or move" when he was found.
Read MoreLike many other serious commitments in life, everyone has a different take on car ownership. Some of us fall in love with one car and stick with it for what seems like an eternity. Others are ready to move on to the next vehicle almost as soon as one new car hits their driveway. Some of us even spend time our time attempting to balance a relationship with as many cars as possible.
Read MoreWhile Russian manufacturer Zavod imeni Likhachova—more commonly referred to as ZIL—might be best known for the buses and trucks they produce, the company also built the high dollar executive sedans and limos that transported rich and important Russians for decades.
Read MoreIt isn't exotic or fast, but this 1972 International Travelall is a somewhat rare and very cool reminder of how dangerous compulsively searching the internet for cars can be.
Read MoreAn auto journalist on a drive through San Francisco yesterday morning happened to come across the above Porsche 911 right after it plowed into a patch of fresh, wet cement. Yes, this is why people think Porsche 911 drivers are asshats.
Read MoreOne of my favorite sayings is "no one can pick on my little brother/sister/friend but me." It's a universal feeling. Whether it's Bart and Milhouse or Nixon and Spiro Agnew, when someone else picks on someone you care about, it's a threat. Especially if the person you care about is the person you pick on the most. The poster behind the worst lowering job in history has been the source of web scorn, but GuacamoleFire finds the same principle at work on that forum and over here on Jalopnik and e
Read MoreToday's the 40th anniversary of the 15,007,034th Volkswagen Beetle built — the number needed to surpass the former record holder for most produced car — the Model T. It made the Beetle officially the world's best-selling car. As a way to commemorate this event, and because I have a big, obvious soft spot for old Beetles, I made a little video showing you how anyone can draw a Beetle using just two ovals.
Read MoreNissan's ad campaign for the Frontier has the pickup engaging in absurd and impossible stunts like snowboarding, dune-riding and catching an airplane wheel in the bed of the truck. The commercials are, in word, terrible. Let's use physics to show you why.
Read MoreFor some people driving isn't about speed or style; it's about going distances better measured by physics calculations than odometers. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the best ways to rack up astronomical mileage without stress or excessive cost.
Read MoreThe electric (or even hybrid) car has been heralded as a way to help limit the amount of aerial pollution hitting the skies and our lungs, but a new study out of China has shown that they're actually even worse than regular gas guzzlers.
Read MoreAlbany Police stopped a stolen car last Sunday and arrested the driver on felony charges. It was the driver's second felony charge in 15 days. And he's in the fifth grade.
Read MoreThe full name of the BMW 1M is the BMW 1 Seres M Coupe. It's not an exciting name, but it's a fun car and it looks great in white as demonstrated by photographer Scott Chu in this portrait.
Read MoreWe live in the age of your-way-right-away. People expect individualistic whims and demands to be fulfilled immediately. More often then not, that potential problem is solved by giving people everything they could possibly want — and much more — up front as part of the deal.
Read MoreLet's start with the end result here, just to get that out of the way: a very deserving charity received a lot of money. So far so good. It's the way it all went down that makes you want to retch.
Read MoreDanny White lives in Washington, DC, is a die-hard Redskins fan, and has both a Chevrolet Avalanche and a peculiar sense of humor. Thanks to a peculiar quirk in the District's Department of Motor Vehicles' computer system, those last two details have gotten him about $20,000 worth of unpaid — and unearned — parking tickets.
Read MoreAmericans invented the Camaro. Americans invented the lightbulb. Wouldn't it then make sense for Americans to get the Camaro with the best bulbs? Alas, shots of the new European Camaro show they're getting better, more fancy LED lights. Let's set fire to our mullets in protest!
Read MoreSchool zones serve an obvious and important role in pedestrian safety because no one wants to hit a kid. Zone enforcement usually lasts a few hundred feet over a large chunk of time in the morning and afternoon. This school zone sign in Michigan tries to break up that solid time slot. The result has been hilariously disastrous.
Read MoreBack in 2007, I encouraged all of you to rush out and buy Daryl Hannah's biodiesel 1983 El Camino. As I expected, one of you did and has been the proud owner of that vehicle ever since. Now it's time for another Jalopnik reader to inherit the beast.
Read MoreIf you accidentally lock your keys in the car and don't have your wedge and metal rod handy, you can often unlock the car from the outside using nothing but your shoelace.
Read MoreSeveral women who flew through Dallas/Fort Worth's airport have filed complaints against the TSA claiming that officials asked them to walk through the body scanners multiple times. Why would female agents do such a thing? So the male agents viewing the scans could get a better look at their bodies. Ew.
Read MoreOne of the great successes of the Web is the unstoppable propagation of ludicrous conspiracy theories. Used to be that in-jokes like the Church of the SubGenius and the tales cooked up by bored John Birch Society types and the TimeCube had to pass by word of mouth, but now every twelve-year-old knows about all the ways in which that was NOT Osama bin Laden that got killed.
Read MoreLotus has produced some fine convertibles in the past — the original Seven, both front-and rear-drive Elans, the Elise — so you'd think a quirky announcement alluding to a new open-top model would be welcome. It might have been if it wasn't from Dany Bahar's Lotus.
Read MoreThere are 22-year-old cars and then there is Honda’s ethereal NSX, still as mellow and brutal, as sleek and industrial as back in the day when Ayrton Senna was still around to contribute his magic to its chassis.
Read MoreGerman medical and precision parts manufacturer Böhm just released two new model cars, both powered by an engine that's seriously old school — a Stirling air engine. Not only are they amazingly detailed, but these models can actually drive around, completely without electricity.
Read MoreMmm, nothing like huffing in that sweet sweet new car smell. If they could make that into an eau du toilette pour homme, I would bathe in it daily. But, according to a new report by the Ecology Center testing over 200 of the best-selling 2011 and 2012 cars and trucks, what we know as that new car quintessence is actually a cocktail of cock-shriveling toxins. Here are the cars and trucks they claim are the "Best" and "Worst."
Read MoreFifty years ago next Monday, John Glenn became an all-time American hero when his small chunky single-seat spacecraft did three laps of Earth. The flight was a huge morale boost for a beleaguered US space program that had suffered numerous setbacks.
Read MoreIt's St. Valentine's Day, which means couples eating heart-shaped pizzas at home and lonely people hooking up like sweaty electromagnets. For the former there's Tums, for the latter at The University of Michigan there's Senior Kellyann Wargo, who just launched a Walk of Shame Shuttle to ferry the lovesick and hungover home on February 15th.
Read MoreSo my friend Garnet Hertz created this little meme called "What People Think." It's the image macro things that have been all over your Facebook walls this week. Here's another one for you. Feel free to share it, just head over to our Jalopnik Facebook page to share it from there.
Read MoreThis is a story about how I found the basement for the world's most storied auto museum with a key from an old Volvo and realized I loved something more than cars. Specifically, how I loved the woman who would end up with the questionable honor of being my wife.
Read MoreIt's a dangerous world out there for the powerful and famous, who are constantly under threat from kidnappers, stalkers, paparazzi and super fans. An even bigger threat exists for the bodyguards who have to throw themselves in front of the bullets. Here are Jalopnik readers' choices for the best VIP/executive protection rides.
Read MoreA Canadian guy named Joe has been digging out the basement of his house using nothing but radio-controlled scale model construction equipment... since 1997. Yes, you read that right — he's been digging out his basement for 15 years — with nothing but little R/C tractors, diggers and even a miniature rock crusher! Amazing.
Read MoreTight fit... but it sure beats carrying that big awkward brute down that narrow stairwell! I have to side step downward and there's been a few times when I nearly tripped over my big feet. lol
Read MoreBefore racing season gets underway, many drivers have a common ritual: they go back and reread Piero Taruffi's "The Technique Of Motor Racing." This elegantly slim volume first appeared in the late 1950s but has lost exactly none of its relevance.
Read MoreThis is the Players Audi RS4 Avant "RS SYCO," dolled up in Lamborghini orange and sitting on Rotiform SNA rims. Stephen Brooks filmed it gliding through Paris for no particular reason other than to look damn cool.
Read MoreContinuing Nissan's advertising theme of how great their trucks could be if there was no reality, this ad showing a stock Nissan Frontier zooming in to rescue a purpose-built sand rail is, of course, little more than a wet dream from some Nissan exec. It would be the exact same if they showed the Frontier beating a purpose-built drag racer in a race– a total, unrepentant fantasy. I'm all for whimsical, imaginative commercials, but there's a difference between a fun ad and an ad that basically sh
Read MorePascal Prokop has his own solution for Switzerland's exceptionally cold winter: He built a wood-burning stove into the passenger seat of his 1990 Volvo 240 station wagon.
Read MoreThis one's a bit less heinous than the airplane-using-the-truck-as-landing-gear one, but it's still pretty stupid. You would think there would be plenty of genuine, existing things you could show a 4-wheel drive truck doing to support snowboarders, but I suppose that was all too boring for the brain of that 7-year-old that the ad agency keeps in a jar to come up with this crap. Here's our physicist, Dr.Stephen Granade, to tell us why this just won't happen, with science:
Read MoreThe most known of Nissan's batch of masturbatory hero-fantasies masquerading as commercials is the one where a Frontier takes the place of the broken front landing gear of an airliner. It's presented as a faux-newscast, which only makes it worse, really. Here's the analysis of why this is such crap provided by our Official Unofficial Physicist, Dr. Stephen Granade:
Read MoreWhen Charles Goodyear figured out how to take the smelly sap from some trees and turn it into the rubber of industry, the finished, stretchy product bounced a crazy diverse number of materials out of their soon-to-be former jobs. Like sheep intestines. Ick.
Read MoreMost non-military helicopters tend to be small flying machines incapable of carrying more than a few passengers. Unveiled this weekend, the 525 "Relentless" is not most helicopters. Holding 16 passengers plus two crew, it's now the largest and most advanced civilian chopper ever built by Bell Helicopter.
Read MoreYou're looking at Tokyo's newest landmark, the 'Dinosaur' Bridge. Officially known as the Tokyo Gate Bridge — providing a link from the capital to a landfill — it shows what actually happens when a government succeeds in spending $1.4 billion on a bridge to nowhere.
Read MoreThis is a story of old ships, childhood summers, inline-8 diesels and a four-letter word. This is the story of the 52-year-old M/S Amur, a vaguely abandoned 282-ft passenger riverboat. Without this rusty old Danube cruiser, I would not be here.
Read MoreWhitney Houston's death on Saturday was just the latest in a too-long line of showbiz tragedies. Even if her hyperproduced adult R&B wasn't your style, you had to respect that voice — a dynamic and eerily clear mezzo-soprano with very few peers in pop music history.
Read MoreThe romantic getaway remains an essential daydream for everyone. For enthusiasts, the choice of proper wheels wheels is almost as important as the choice of companion. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the best cars for a romantic Valentines Day getaway.
Read MoreBecause car culture and mainstream culture intersect so often in movies, they can create a stellar opportunity for those normally unaffiliated with the love of the cult of cars to get a little taste of our gearhead obsession.
Read MoreSwedish supercar manufacturer Koenigsegg told Car & Driver that they are engineering their twin-turbo V8 engine to run without a camshaft. The far-flung world of infinitely variable engines will soon be upon us.
Read MoreMercedes didn't exactly have road use in mind when they designed the CLK GTR for the recently introduced FIA GT Championship, but in order to meet homologation standards for the series 25 cars were built for the street.
Read MoreThis is it. The new third generation 2012 BMW M6. Armed with a big TwinPower Turbo V8 engine, the new M6 is here to deliver a 560 HP ass-whooping to the CTS-V and any other coupe with the balls to get in the ring with this Teutonic two-door. But, if you're hoping for a manual — don't hold your breath. At least not this year anyway.
Read MoreLike many young car lovers we first fell in love with the exotic high dollar cars we saw on television and hung on our walls. Shortly thereafter, like many young car lovers we realized the closest we were going to get to the expensive supercars we lusted after were staring at posters and watching them on TV.
Read MoreFew would accuse anyone who drives a super car like the Ferrari 458 of wanting to blend into the crowd. It is perhaps only appropriate then that covering a 458 with camouflage inside and out serves to make the already attention grabbing car stick out even more.
Read MoreHave you heard that video is a big thing over at Gawker Media? It's true, we watch and post a lot of videos each week. Here are some of the best videos of week, culled from an array of Gawker Media sites.
Read MoreA 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO sold this past week for the unbelievable sum of $31,856,726 (£20.2 million), making it the most expensive car ever sold in Britain and the second most expensive car ever known to have been sold anywhere in the world.
Read MoreIf you own a Bugatti Veyron you must drive it over 225 mph. At least once. Just don't do it on public roads. No word on whether this fetching Veyron shot by Ronnie Renaldi has eclipsed that mark, but it looks like it's doing at least 150 mph standing still.
Read MoreIt's Friday. Glorious, blissful, yes-I-can-relax-a-bit Friday. Thank you, passage of time. Thank you, Emperor Constantine who invented weekends past the Sabbath day. Time to just let it all drop for a while.
Read MoreIn a recent list of the world's Ten Greatest Sporting Events, National Geographic ranked the 24 Hours Of Le Mans at number one. That's above the Super Bowl, the Olympics and the World Cup.
Read MoreThe perils of New York City parking are legendary. Often times the space between a legal and illegal parking spot is often times no more than one sheet of paper. Here's Kathryn A Higgins' story from Thought Catalog that could probably be just as easily titled "How NOT To Park Your Car In Manhattan." — Ed.
Read MoreKevin Kewley and his friends like adventure. So, to follow up their off-road parasailing experience why not compete in the grueling Baja 1000 race? Unfortunately, that race is a little pricey, so instead they tried to cross the same distance for $1,000. Here's their story. —Ed.
Read MoreWe already know some of the leaked specs of the upcoming Audi RS4 Avant, but now we know what its bumper looks like. Basically, now we possibly know what the next RS4 looks like.
Read MoreEver wanted to be in a play? Great, we all have at some point. Ever wanted to have the lame loser role in a play? Different story. All roles are important; not all roles are enjoyable or fun. Still, the story's the important thing.
Read MoreYou finally find a spot in a packed parking lot and somebody's parked over the line so you can't fit. Or you've been waiting for someone to leave the lot and somebody pulls in to steal your claimed space. There are plenty of ways to be an asshole parker in this world, but few good ways to deal with them. Here's the best way to handle the situation.
Read MoreOr, as you read the title: Blah Blah Blah Breasts Blah Blah Blah 1,300-HP Corvette. Yes, some schmuck has made another addition to the classy boobs-go-for-a-ride formula, only this time things aren't quite as enhanced as they were before. UPDATE! They took down the video and it was edited to remove the nipples. Apparently, YouTube is ok with the rest of the videos but a little nipping was too far. The Full NSFW version is here.
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Read MoreRacing-game mavens who hanker for a bit of upscale American style now have one fewer reason to leave the basement: Cadillac's big-assed badass CTS-V Coupe race car will soon be available for the immersive iRacing MMO racing simulator.
Read MoreFormula One racing is a sport associated with a certain kind of wealthy international traveler — someone who charters a yacht to enjoy the Monaco Grand Prix. Boy aren't they going to be surprised later this year when they travel to the newest F1 race — in a town on the outskirts of Austin so culturally remote their slogan is "Where the hell is Elroy, Texas?"
Read MoreThe United States hosts a Formula One race again this year, and two are scheduled for next year. While the US has a long history with F1, there are serious concerns about whether the modern series can find a sustained popularity in the American media market.
Read MoreOur incessant clamoring for concept cars to become street legal and purchasable occasionally pays off. All the heavy panting for the Aston Marton V12 Zagato Concept has resulted in a production Aston Martin V12 Zagato. One question: did we piss it off somehow?
Read MoreWe all talk about how we would design a car given the chance. We all prattle on about all-wheel-drive diesel station wagons with manual transmissions, or try to figure out just the right blend of Miata and Corvette, or whatever. It goes with being an enthusiast.
Read MoreAmerica's most sort of exciting mid-sizer — the Kia Optima SX — just got better! Ok, not really better. Or faster. And there's no manual transmission. But it is more expensive in new SX Limited trim, almost reaching the $35,000 mark. What do you have to be high on to pay that for a mid-size sedan? Oh… right.
Read MoreChrysler wants you to like the Dodge Dart. They really do. And they're sweetening the pot with a a million powertrains and more than 150 Mopar accessories, most of which can be found on the Dodge Dart GTS 210 Tribute custom car.
Read MoreThe Acura ILX, the Honda Civic with a proboscis prosthetic first shown as a "concept" last month at the Detroit Auto Show, was whipped out here at the Chicago Auto Show today in its full production trim.
Read MoreAnyone who travels regularly wants to believe that federal air marshals are friendly heroes who are aboard every single flight. (C'mon, it's possible). But the reality, unfortunately, is not so sunny. According to a new government report, air marshals might be fine to share a three-hour flight with, but they don't sound like they'd be too great to work with, particularly if you're a woman.
Read MoreI was with my 15-month old son, Otto, at the playground in Griffith Park the other day and saw something that reaffirmed my faith that maybe, just maybe, some of this current generation of kids will grow up appreciating cars the way I do.
Read MoreOur first attempt at a pro-con QOTD was a success, so we're going to open the floor for debate again today. Instead of a specific current issue, though, let's talk about something that's more a standing concern: Are Americans going to ever truly embrace Formula One?
Read MoreThe fine folks at Animal New York pointed us to Alejandro Cartagena, a Mexican photographer who works in the poorly-planned, sullen-teen-roaming suburban communities near Monterrey, Mexico. His latest series called Car Poolers is a bird's eye view of work men riding prostrate in trucks.
Read MoreAs we look at these first live photos of the newly-defanged Z taken here at the Chicago Auto Show this morning, let's also take a quick recap of the differences between the 2012 Nissan 370Z and the new 2013 Nissan 370Z. All, like, two of them.
Read MoreHyundai's finally gotten around to producing a coupe version of its popular Hyundai Elantra for the confusing group of buyers who, for unknown reasons, want a bland coupe when a hatchback is obviously superior.
Read MoreThe ancient Greeks had their rules about drama. One of the big ones was founded on the very core of human reality: Nobody's perfect. Every hero had a weakness, a flaw, a means for the storyteller to bring about an end.
Read MoreRising up from ARCA stock car racing to the NASCAR Nationwide Series, there is a new reason why people may tangentially care about NASCAR. Her name is Maryeve Dufault and this is everything you need to know about this model-turned-badass.
Read MoreThis is Akio Toyoda, CEO and President of Toyota, one of the three largest automakers in the world, dirt-tracking a Toyota GT 86/Scion FR-S. The only thing better? Toyoda then takes it snow-drifting. Epic.
Read MoreIt may be the most famous race track in the world to enthusiasts, but Germany's Nürburgring has been in peril for the last two years because of the public track's private management. Since November we've promoted the call to "Save The 'Ring" for another generation of car lovers, and today we've finally got some good news.
Read MoreChrysler's Clint Eastwood ad was the most controversial commercial (for various reasons) of this year's Super Bowl. But it wasn't controversial enough that someone acting on behalf of the NFL should have had it pulled off YouTube. How and why they did it demonstrates just how easy it is for someone to falsely claim copyright protections.
Read MoreWhen you own a Bugatti Veyron, seven high-speed runs on public roads will take you up to 225 miles an hour. Yes, he gets pulled over and no, we don't know how much his ticket is going to cost him.
Read MoreThose pondering why you'd launch a sports car in Chicago in the middle of February will get their answer when they look at the photos of the 2013 Nissan 370Z. This is the least you can do to a car and call it an upgrade. Look, vertical LED daytime running lights!
Read MoreMy fight against the check engine light still goes on, though, like an uncle with an extensive collection of pornography, I'm sure many of you were hoping I'd just keep it to myself. Well, like your pervy uncle, I won't. I can't. And, I'm not alone.
Read MoreSince World War II the Japanese auto industry has gone from essentially nothing to global dominance. Along the way they have developed a subtle and nuanced national character. What car best represents the traits and spirit of the land of the Rising Sun?
Read MoreI've been putting off any Lego purchases until my nephew gets old enough to build with non-Duplo sets without potentially swallowing any pieces. The new Lego Technic 4x4 Off-Roader might have me breaking that policy. Hey, his 11th birthday is barely a decade away!
Read MoreAs one of the first to call the Chrysler Clint Eastwood commercial from last night's Super Bowl a "political ad" — for a moment I felt like the brouhaha over it was partly my fault. Well, until the political hacks weighed in and I realized they were living in a fantasy world.
Read MoreThis may not be the most inappropriate homage to every good ol' boy's favorite jumping Dodge Charger we've seen lately, but this E90 four-door M3 in orange with blocky "01" numbers leaves us wondering just what everyone involved was thinking.
Read MoreThe Clint Eastwood Super Bowl Ad was a pep talk for Detroit and a threat to those people who don't think automakers like Chrysler are capable of making a comeback. People like Clint Eastwood, who voiced his opposition to the auto bailout in very clear terms just a few months ago.
Read MoreBack in the days of Formula One’s 1.5-liter years, there was no winter off-season for the best drivers. Once the Grands Prix in Europe were over, drivers and teams flew down New Zealand and Australia to compete against the locals, who put up quite a fight.
Read MoreNo laws will change our capacity for stupidity behind the wheel. People will drive and text no matter what legislation is passed. But I think I know how we can use technology to mitigate the danger to fellow drivers. Enter the Center-Mount Distraction Light (CMDL). I think you'll love it.
Read MoreThere's high-minded discussions about a motor's balance and drivability, and then there's the hedonistic glee of unearthly amounts of power and noise in short druglike bursts. These are Jalopnik readers' picks for the best dyno videos of all time.
Read MoreOf last night's commercials, Chrysler's Clint Eastwood ad was undoubtably one of the best. So why did the NFL claim copyright on the video and force YouTube to pull it down this morning? UPDATE!
Read MoreAs we told you a few months back, Sports Ilustrated swimsuit model Catrinel Menghia is the hot, anthropomorphic incarnation of the Fiat 500 Abarth in the now-famous ad every auto enthusiast in the United States has fallen in love with. Although she's actually Romanian instead of Italian, she certainly does a pretty spectacular job playing one on TV.
Read MoreChrysler's newest "Imported From Detroit" ad — a campaign that started at last year's Super Bowl with an ad starring Eminem — stars Clint Eastwood in yet another pitch-perfect ad for the littlest of the Big Three.
Read MoreYeah, so, we just heard there's an actual football game that goes on in between all of those car commercials. Who knew? Our priority's always been in the right place — the car ads.
Read MoreWe don't support drunk driving or any attempts to get out of an arrest for doing so, but we have give one Florida woman credit for a creative on the spot excuse when she was pulled over last weekend for speeding and swerving through traffic.
Read MoreUPDATED! Ford's not pleased with the Chevy truck super bowl ad that implies Ford trucks aren't built tough enough to survive the Mayan apocalypse. How upset are they? They're so pissed the automaker's sent letters to both GM and NBC asking them to pull the ad from tonight's big game.
Read MoreWe're not sure many vehicles have ever left the factory that are less suited for low 11 second 1/4 miles and serious wheelies than the International Scout 80. That is exactly why the fact this 1963 International Scout is somehow capable of both of these impressive feats is so cool.
Read MoreHave you heard that video is a big thing over at Gawker Media? It's true, we watch and post a lot of videos each week. Here are some of the best videos of week, culled from an array of Gawker Media sites.
Read MoreOldsmobile thought their 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 was tough but they didn't want you to take their word for it. Instead they got a tough talking spokesman dressed up as a construction worker to explain it to you.
Read MoreLike lots of car guys, I have a very specific weakness for one particular class of automobile. For many, that weakness is for fast, powerful, luxurious, high-end exotics; for me, as a side effect of a condition known medically as "being a bit of a moron," it's cars at the extreme low end of the spectrum.
Read MoreCaving to the wave of backlash over its now-aborted five-seater prototype, Ferrari has hastily redesigned its F1 car overnight, resulting in this ugly little duckling, the F2012. Force India unveiled its own duck-billed racecar as well. Click through for in-depth details on these machines.
Read MoreIt's called hagwalah and nine times out of ten you've seen it in grainy cell phone video shot from the side of a Saudi highway, but now it's the high-def backdrop of M.I.A.'s surprisingly car-centric video, shot in the Middle East.
Read MoreWe live in a numbers-obsessed era. We want to see measured proof of a car's awesomeness. If we can see and hear that awesomeness being measured, so much the better. What's the best dyno pull that's ever been captured on video?
Read MoreDropping any artifice of civility in the back-and-forth sniping between Chevy and Ford, this year's Silverado ad comes out and says what they've only been wiling to say behind closed doors: buy our competitors vehicle and you will die. You will be dead. Six-feet under. And your family. You will all die a horrible terrible death.
Read MoreAfter Motor Trend's Jonny Lieberman found himself the victim of a savage Facebook LOLing by professional automotive internet troll Jack Baruth, newly-annointed Motor Trend editor-in-chief Edward Loh jumped to his beleaguered number two's defense. It's not pretty.
Read MoreBen Popken will be on tonight's "Attack Of The Show" on G4 at 7:00 PM EST to talk about the Heather Peters Honda Civic Hybrid case. Tune in and watch him. Remember, take a drink every time he winks.
Read MoreI am waiting for the day when someone passionate and knowledgeable completely gets on my case about my occasional offhand use of the word "barbecue." I want someone to do this. I want to be interrogated about whether I'm talking specifically about dry rub or Carolina vinegar-based or Kansas City or whatever.
Read MoreAre you sick of all the non-automotive related thinking you have to do in relation to Groundhog Day? Sure, it's fun we entrust a marmot or whatever to handle our global weather control, but dammit, nobody even brings up cars when talking about them. Yes, Bill Murray let one crash a Ford F-150 in the movie, but beyond that, it's all shadow observations and holes in the ground. Until now.
Read MoreLittle guy: 1. Honda: 0. That's the results from Round One of Honda v. Civic Hybrid Owner. Which isn't to say that Honda didn't make a valiant effort. And we've got the 120-page evidence packet they submitted to prove it. So how exactly did Honda try to take down Heather Peters?
Read MoreVolkswagen calls the 2013 Volkswagen Beetle TDI the "most fuel efficient 21st Century Beetle" because those old veedubs managed impressive fuel economy feats before safety was an issue. Legal precision aside, shoving a diesel in a new-but-not-New Volkswagen Beetle gives American men a shot at an affordable diesel coupe.
Read MoreWe live in an age where car colors are terribly safe. Silver and gray rule the modern automotive palette. It's time to liven things up and add some brightness and contrast to the roads. What color needs to be popular again?
Read MoreYesterday, Heather Peters proved one woman can strike a blow against a major automaker when she succeeded in a landmark California case against Honda for making false claims about fuel economy.The key? Take them to small claims court. With her help, we've created this definitive step-by-step guide to how she, like a modern-day David, took on Goliath — and how you can too.
Read MoreHeather Peters was successful in her small claims case against Honda, in which she alleged that the car wasn't getting anywhere near the 50 MPG she says the company advertised her car would get. Although Honda only has to pay her $9,687 for this particular ruling, Peters has essentially laid the groundwork for other owners to make similar claims that could ultimately cost the company an enormous amount of money.
Read MoreIf you truly care about American music, this will be happy news: The epic archives of musical folklorist Alan Lomax, including around 5000 hours of recordings, will be put online — making them universally accessible, like Lomax always wanted them to be.
Read MoreAutomakers knows there's big money in the aftermarket, especially for compact cars that on their own rarely make much on the sticker price. No surprise then that Mopar's showing off what they can do, creating a 210 horsepower factory-tuned Dodge Dart. They call it the Dodge Dart GTS 210 Tribute.
Read MoreThe modern boarding pass is a mess, so it's great to see a major airline like Delta put so much thought into their new one, launching today. It's clearer, easier to read, and no longer looks like splatter art done with random bits of information.
Read MoreIf you or I get pulled over, fail a field sobriety test, and admit to drinking we're going to probably spend some time in jail. Colorado State Rep. Laura Bradford was in the same situation but used a few magic words that forced the police to let her go.
Read MoreSpeed costs money. Beyond that simple dictum, there are many bends and folds in the fabric of the marketplace: a Porsche 944 Turbo is as fast as its contemporary sister 911 Turbo, but costs about a third as much. Last year's speed king is this year's bargain. Dollar for dollar, what's the best deal in serious high performance today?
Read MoreIn a month that saw Ford sales up 7%, and even Chrysler up 44%, it's hard to see a sales drop of 6% at General Motors and see much in the way of good.
Read MoreTwo weeks after seeing Volkswagen's adorable teaser for their Super Bowl ad featuring dogs barking the Imperial March from Star Wars, here now is the automaker's amazing extended-length Super Bowl commercial. It's got everything you'd ever want from a big game ad — a dog and Darth Vader.
Read MoreThe annual Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show is to the automotive industry what dingleberries are to your ass. Still, there's always something at the Vegas show that makes it worthwhile. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe custom Jeep Wrangler is claimed to have dangled at last year's show, but is its price worth your while?
Read MoreOn the Internet, a 404 error means a broken or dead link at that particular address. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Peugeot 404 is a link to the Gallic past, but will its price make you point your browser elsewhere?
Read MoreMany equate Volvo with a rectilinear design aesthetic that affords the aerodynamics of a mid-century modern home. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 122S may fly in the face of that paradigm, but does it also come with a price that's grounded in reality?
Read MoreThe unicorn is a mythical beast, part horse, part... I don't know, narwhal? rhino? Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '84 Chevy Van adds to the lore, but does its price myth the mark?
Read MoreWhat's silver, has two wings and FLIES? Why, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 260Z of course. With low miles and a pair of questionable mods, the real riddle is how much bread should someone pay for this silver Zed?
Read MoreLive ordnance is not something you'd typically want to have driving around, but a bargain basement exotic like today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Lotus Esprit, could easily grenade your wallet at any time. The question is, does its purchase price pull the pin?
Read MoreAre you ready to dive into the deep end of VW wackiness? Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 1999 VW Polo Wagon SDI will make you a god among VW Vortexans, but will its price also make you the lord of poverty?
Read MoreWhile George Washington and Abraham Lincoln vie for greatest U.S. President ever, Honest Abe one-ups the cherry tree massacrer by having a namesake automotive brand. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 1960 Lincoln Continental might be perfect for a Presidents' Day parade, but is its price unimpeachable?
Read MorePorsche's venerable 911 is lust-worthy on its own, but that hasn't stopped many an tuner from attempting to eke out even more of what the car has to offer. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe 1986 Carrera coupe has been RUF'd up, but is its price too RUF to handle?
Read MoreDiplomatic immunity means never having to say you're sorry. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Euro-spec Mercedes 300D looks like something a foreign attaché might drive, but will its price tax your diplomacy?
Read MoreHaving a baby means sleepless nights and changing lots and lots of diapers. The seller of today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Merkur XR4Ti has changed its turbo 2.3 for a carb'd 302, but now needs to make way for his new arrival. Will you find its price worth losing sleep over?
Read MoreBeta Ursae Majoris, better known as Merak, is a star in the constellation, Ursa Major, also better known as the Big Dipper. Its namesake, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Maserati Merak, is located much closer than that, but is its price too big a dip into your wallet?
Read MoreWhile based on Ford's CDW27 World Car platform, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Contour SVT is set up as a Safety Car for that most American of racing series — Champ Car. Will its price however, make it the most expensive Contour... in the world?
Read MoreCracker Jack is a tasty treat that comes with a toy surprise inside the box. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe BMW E34 looks pretty tasty, and the surprise 6-speed inside makes it ready to play. Will its price however, make you think the seller is just toying with you?
Read MoreNew York is known as the City that never sleeps, and, the Big Apple. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '64 New Yorker is painted black which seems appropriate considering the city's unofficial dress code, but will its price have you saying I'M WALKIN' HERE, I'M WALKIN' HERE?
Read MoreIf you've ever played Portals 1 and 2 you'll know the benefit of having a door at just the right spot. Today'sNice Price or Crack Pipe Maserati gives you not one, not two, but four handy portals, but does its price take the cake?
Read MoreFor all its veneration, Porsche's 928 doesn't seem to get all that much respect. As example, today's Nice Price Or Crack Pipe '82 928S has gone from Weissach to Woodward, but is its price at least respectable?
Read MoreRossi are Red, Veloce are too, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Alfa è bello, but does its price say screw you?
Read MoreThe 1965 Mako Shark II concept car previewed the styling direction of the C3 Corvette, albeit with greater exaggeration. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe '71 Coupe is claimed to be a MACO - whatever that is — but will its price take too big a bite out of its buyer's wallet?
Read MoreThis year, Volkswagen released a new New Beetle, and over the decades they built like a gazillion old Old Beetles. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Type 1 is a new Old Beetle, but is its price old news?
Read MoreCurrent economic conditions may not be optimal, but that doesn't mean you'd have to completely give up life's luxuries, or as today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Geo Metro proves, LeMons racing. Still, is this little limo really priced to do even one lap of luxury?
Read MoreIf you're a fan of large examples of movie memorabilia or short examples of Scientologists, you will be thrilled to learn that the Volo Auto Museum is selling a Porsche 928 originally used in the 1983 Tom Cruise classic Risky Business.
Read MoreUndoubtedly the idea of stumbling across a Porsche 356 in neglected but solid original condition is the stuff of gearhead dreams. The relative mechanical simplicity of the 356 and it's iconic shape lend itself perfectly to the idea of driving and enjoying it in slightly deteriorated original condition.
Read MoreThere is no way to really explain to racing fans what just happened at the Daytona 500, so to non-racing fans this is going to sound fucking crazy, but… a guy who hasn't won a single race in 397 times might win after a car crashed into a truck FULL OF JET FUEL and exploded.
Read MoreIn the early days of hot rods and custom cars mixing and matching various pieces of different automobiles was a fairly common practice. Often the result of the junkyard raiding was a badass automotive mutt, but sometimes the end product was just an ill-conceived and unattractive mixture of car parts.
Read MoreIf you came across a Mazda Miata en route to the crusher, what would you do with it? While any variety of answers immediately come to mind—track day beater, stripped street car, V8 swap—we bet you didn't think about stretching it and adding two Chevy 350ci V8s.
Read MoreTesla Motors just unveiled a new crossover the electric-only automaker plans to put into production by 2014.
Read MoreEvery new compact car from the Volkswagen Group will be based on what you see here — the Modular Transverse Matrix (MQB) platform. That includes the seventh-generation Volkswagen Golf and the new Audi A3. Given the company's recent design trends this may be the best the new Mk7 Golf will ever look.
Read MoreSpace junk is a serious if little-appreciated problem. Dead satellites, spent booster rockets, and other orbiting technical garbage place active satellites and manned craft in significant peril. In a culturally appropriate effort, the Swiss Space Center is launching the CleanSpace program to tidy up low-earth orbit.
Read MoreWhen Air Force pilot Joe Kittinger jumped out of a ballon gondola from 102,800 feet in August 1960, he set four aerospace records which stand to this day. Red Bull and a mad Austrian skydiver are about to break them. And Kittinger is on board.
Read MoreHere's the situation: You wake up, dazed, and find yourself floating weightlessly in the cramped confines of a Soyuz orbital module, possibly the victim of a prank by wealthy, well-connected friends — or maybe some espionage plot. Maybe you owe money to some powerful Russians. Who knows — maybe you even planned it. Whatever the reason, you're there, and now you need to take charge of the situation. I'm here to help. Here's how to fly it.
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreLast night General Motors aired a Super Bowl commercial for the Chevy Silverado that not only successfully trolled their cross-town rivals at Ford — but also was the first Super Bowl ad where GM's created buzz without tripping over its own feet.
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreThis is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Read MoreSakichi Toyoda was born in Japan 145 years ago today on February 14th, 1867. By all accounts a hard-working entrepreneur, Toyoda's greatest success was building a small business manufacturing textile looms. That business ended up growing into a company that, for two years beginning in 2008, became the world's largest automaker. That company is named Toyota. We've always wondered: Why the change from "d" to "t"?
Read MoreIt seems with custom 4x4 show trucks and the people who build them "more" is always better. It doesn't particularly matter what it is—wheels, lift, length, silly graphics—the more there is, the better it is. If ever there were a vehicle to illustrate this way of thinking it's this 6x6 1993 Ford F350 currently listed on Ebay.
Read MoreVolkswagen's Golf Cabriolet has a history, in this country at least, mostly defined by the hormonal and angry field hockey players who drove them. Thanks to its roll hoop it earned a nickname used by countless high school and college kids: Bitch Basket. The new Golf GTI Cabriolet swaps the bitchy attitude for a bitchin' 200-horsepower turbo-four.
Read MoreA thread on StanceWorks — the popular forum for lowered and hellaflush cars — began with a proud 2001 Honda Civic owner showing off his trunk-rattling sound system and slammed car. Then forum members quickly discovered how he lowered the car. As you can see, it's the kind of horrific DIY engineering that makes you want to scream, "You're doing it wrong!"
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